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Improve your health in 90 seconds

Posted on Nov 9th 2007 1:17PM by Martha Edwards

Filed Under: Diet & Weight Loss

In 90-seconds, you can walk to the kitchen and open a bag of chips and a soda. Or you can improve your health -- which sounds better? I know you're leading towards the chips, but think about how much better you'll feel if you choose your health.

According to Prevention, you can improve your health in 90 seconds. Now, that's not that's all it takes, but here are some easy things you can do in addition to leading a healthy lifestyle:

Eat the apple peel. You might like apple slices bare, but most of the nutrition is in the skin.
Sniff lavender and rosemary. Studies have shown that doing this can help slow the aging process.
Add pistachios to your salad. This can significantly reduce your cholesterol
Instead of pouring on the sugar, use buckwheat honey.

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Tags: 90 seconds, 90Seconds, apple peel, ApplePeel, buckwheat honey, BuckwheatHoney, healthy habits, HealthyHabits, lavender, pistachios, rosemary

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Jrights92 11-09-2007 @ 4:22PM

sounds like good advice to me!

JANIE 11-09-2007 @ 4:46PM

The old saying is, "An apple a day keeps the doctor away." I think it's very true.

lea 11-09-2007 @ 5:26PM

Isn't buckwheat honey still sugar? What is the difference? Honey still breaks down like sugar, in the body

liz 11-09-2007 @ 6:21PM

i believe that the point about the honey is that it isnt REFINED sugar... its a natural thing....

lea 11-09-2007 @ 6:34PM

someone tell me?

Tony 11-09-2007 @ 6:45PM

I tried to sniff Rosemary today and she kicked me in the cojones.I thought that was supposed to increase my health.

David 11-09-2007 @ 7:49PM

Health tips like these usually aren't worth the caloric energy it takes to read them. This is because most often they are based on old wives tales, poor studies, or on half truths. For example: what harm is done by the wax coated that coats the apple skin? Is that harm offset by the nutrients? And sugar is sugar -- it doesn't matter whether it's in honey, natural or refined.

Mea 11-09-2007 @ 7:54PM

Actually the honey can be a really big help if you have allergies. Even though I am diabetic I often use some honey on my morning oatmeal because my allergies are so annoying. It needs to be as local as you can get, though. The bees use the pollen to make the honey and it is almost like getting an allergy shot. Don't do this if your diabetes is not well-controlled, though.

Walnuts are supposed to be the best nuts to help your health, but I just learned on the today show that all nuts need to be eliminated to help with migraines. I suffer from awful migraines pretty much every other day, so I am trying to do the elimination diet to see if it helps. Then I can add food back. it is hard to win. Peanuts are not really nuts, are they? Can I keep eating peanut butter?

Loved the comment about sniffing Rosemary LOL!

ANNA 11-10-2007 @ 2:34PM

DON'T use aspartame. that stuff is so dangerous. it made me really, really sick. once i stopped using it, within a week, i started to lose weight, lost my big apetite, pain stopped. you can get more info at the cdc.com site.